Maria is the fifteen named storm of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It formed as a tropical storm on 16 September at 2100UTC, east-southeast of the Lesser Antilles and it was upgraded to hurricane status on 17 September at 2100UTC. Maria intensified moving across the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Leeward Islands near Dominica as a major hurricane (category 5) on 18 September at approximately 2345UTC.
This report presents the impacts of Maria on CCRIF member countries the Turks and Caicos Islands and The Bahamas.